shenanigan

Example Sentences

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Some of the shenanigan plot lines go too far afield, but they’re saved by the show’s emotional grounding and perfect casting, its sense of intimacy and realism.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022

I take issue with the people who effectively have chalked this up to a boys-will-be-boys–type shenanigan.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2019

We’re there in the forests and the boardrooms for each technological breakthrough, financial innovation and political shenanigan as Duke & Sons clear-cuts its way to a lucrative future.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2016

“I had to Google what that thing was, the whole shenanigan was, what the meaning was,” he says.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2016

I ask him what kind of a melodramatic shenanigan is this?

From The Lost Kafoozalum by Ashwell, Pauline